High-energy magnetic excitations in cuprate superconductors.

In this paper, the high-energy magnetic excitations in cuprate superconductors are studied based on the kinetic energy driven superconducting mechanism. The spin self-energy is evaluated explicitly in terms of the collective charge carrier modes in the particle-hole and particle-particle channels, and employed to calculate the dynamical spin structure factor. Our results show the existence of damped but well-defined dispersive spin excitations in the whole doping phase diagram. In particular, the charge carrier doping has a more modest effect on the high-energy spin excitations, and then the high-energy magnetic excitations retain roughly constant energy as a function of doping, with spectral weights and dispersion relations comparable to those found in the parent compound. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]